State activity of the Ukrainian People's Republic Central Council: a comparative analysis against the background of diplomacy in Central-Eastern Europe

The article describes the state activities of the Ukrainian People's Republic against the background of the implementation of its diplomacy in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, the process of formation of the executive diplomatic body of the Ukrainian People's Republic - General Secretariat of International Affairs is highlighted. The Ukrainian leadership offered the utopian idea of forming a federation to the regional governments of Kuban, Crimea, the Don, and Siberia. Thus, the article analyzes the main blunders of the Central Rada on the way of formation of statehood and highlights the main vectors of discussion on this issue. The main geopolitical climate, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe, which existed for the diplomatic activity of the Ukrainian state is also investigated. In particular, it is noted that the diplomatic situation in general was not particularly favorable for the state activity of Ukraine.

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The idea of Central Europe: literary projections (M. Kundera, D. Kiš, J. Andrukhovych)

Problems of Slavonic studies ◽

10.30970/sls.2020.69.3488 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 45-52

Author(s):

Maryna Hohulia ◽

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Key Words ◽

Central Europe ◽

Central And Eastern Europe ◽

Milan Kundera ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Central Eastern Europe ◽

Central Eastern ◽

The Aesthetic

Background: The talks about Central or Central-Eastern Europe are actualized by new political and ontological challenges and feelings of obstruction when one after another Soviet interventions took place in this space. M. Kundera's essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe" is quite quoted and analyzed not only in literary studies, but also in philosophical, historical, political and other studies. His text inspired others authors to create their own vision of the Central Europe. But it’s one of the first attempts of a comparative analysis of the aesthetic and philosophical ideas of Kundera, Kiš, and Andrukhovych has been made. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clarify the peculiarities of the expression of the idea of Central Europe in the aesthetic and philosophical thought of Milan Kundera, Danylo Kiš, Yurii Andrukhovych, thus demonstrating the various manifestations of this concept in Slavic literature. Results: Central Europe (in Adrukhovych case is Eastern-Central Europe) is a floating cultural space with apocalyptic and anti-imperial character wich has post-Habsburg and urban dominants. Oppositions of “one's own” and “foreign”, “cultural” and “barbaric”, “harmonious” and “imposed” are clearly traced. Literary projections of Central Europe are accompanied by attempts to reconstruct it, recreate it from ruins, and fix the vanishing world, where universal (Habsburg heritage) predominates, in which national (in these cases Czech, Jewish, Ukrainian) and anti-colonial issues are intertwined. Key words: Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, prose, space, apocalyptic, anti-imperialism.

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